Venus is the hottest planet in the solar system due to its thick carbon dioxide atmosphere, trapping heat as part of a ...

How can we successfully collect and return samples from Mercury and Venus to Earth? This is what a recent study presented at the 56th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference hopes to address as a pair ...

Scientists using the James Webb Telescope have detected a gas on K2-18b that, on Earth, is only produced by living ...

In a potential landmark discovery, scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have obtained what they call the strongest ...

In a potential breakthrough in the search for alien life, a team of international researchers has identified chemical ...

A Southwest Research Institute-led study modeled the chemistry of TOI-270 d, an exoplanet between Earth and Neptune in size, ...

A team of astronomers claims to have sniffed out a “biosignature” in the atmosphere of a distant planet called K2-18b. But ...

Further studies are needed to determine whether K2-18b, which orbits a star 120 light-years away, is inhabited, or even ...

From its name to its glow in the night sky, Venus has long been associated with beauty. But beneath its soft cloud cover lies one of the most hostile environments in our solar system. With surface ...

Astronomers announced that they had detected the most promising "hints" of potential life on a planet beyond our solar system ...

April’s planetary parade has fewer planets. Only four will line up: Venus, Saturn, Mercury and Neptune. April's parade of ...